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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Spectrality"”.
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Forms of Spectrality in Ancient Rome
This dissertation explores what images of ghosts in Roman art can reveal about the very limits of representation and the act of seeing itself. My approach differs from that of many previous studies on the supernatural, therefore, in that it ultimately has little to do with the question of whether …
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Spectrality in the works of Christoph Ransmayr
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-19 without embargo terms
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Spectres of Childhood: Spectrality and Hauntology in Children’s Literature
… align with, repeat, or complicate the agendas of spectrality theory. Each chapter focuses on individual texts that have come to define children’s literature. The extended introduction utilises *Peter Pan* as a case through which to review the literature that connects so-called ‘spectralities’ and …
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New media hauntings : digital aesthetics of haunting, context collapse, and networked spectrality
… introduces the critical methodology ‘networked spectrality’ to theorise depictions of new media hauntings. Ghost stories often include the latest technologies to establish the realistic setting, but technological advance also affords new opportunities to depict ghost stories. I argue that the …
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A Queering of Memory, Temporality, Subjectivity: Subversive Methods in Audiovisual Practice
… of sound, memory, voice, temporality and spectrality, specifically in relation to audiovisual art. Through an analysis of artworks and material practices, I identify a range of subversive strategies implemented by artists intent on amplifying the voices of marginalised communities. These …
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Portfolio of Music Compositions
… ways that modal aspects can be extracted from spectrality and vice versa. The target of my research is to extend these two different sound worlds and find or invent methods by which modality can be extracted from spectrality and vice versa in an artistic framework. This methodology has been …
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A Portfolio of original compositions (Barry O'Halpin)
… it combines the earlier systematic mimetic spectrality with the later technical and stylistic hybridity. The solo guitar works serve as ‘connective tissue’, with materials transplanted into Wingform where their idiomatic post-spectral harmonic and timbral investigations shape the surrounding …
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Polycrystalline Grain Boundary Solute Segregation at Finite Sizes and Temperatures
… and elastic contributions that influence the spectrality of solute segregation and thus the energetic contrast observed. Aside from grain junctions, temperature can play a major role in the stability of nanocrystals. This thesis demonstrates estimations of dilute site-wise vibrational …
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Landscapes of the invisible: sounds, cosmologies and poetics of space
… diaspora, music and cosmology, invisibility and spectrality, the body and perception. I also show how the works generate new connections between and across contemporary avant-garde, experimental and popular music, and visual art and cinema traditions. I describe the methodological design, …
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Avant-Garde and Socialist Dreamworlds in Latin America: Global and Local Designs, 1919-1939
… state sponsorship; iconography of revolution and spectrality; and the autonomy of art at the intersection of politics and aesthetics.
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Visible Histories: Print Culture and the Reproducible Past in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel
… ghosts, even as they link print media to spectrality. The physical book itself manifests the haunting presence of earlier worlds and so represents an important symbol of visible history throughout this study. Chapters of the dissertation explore how fictional sights of reproduced time …
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A Story of the Young Adult Story of Children's and Young Adult Literature, Culture, and Media
… global pandemic. Dark academia, haunting and spectrality become salient as the thesis progresses. Imagined as a work of literature and art, A Story of the Young Adult Story of Children’s and Young Adult, Literature, Culture, and Media remixes doctoral thesis writing. The project combines the …
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The Spectral Model of Grain Boundary Solute Segregation
… segregation isotherm that accounts for both the spectrality of grain boundary sites, and solute-solute interactions; we also develop a computational framework to extract, and delineate both effects. Finally, we hope that the developed spectral thermodynamic framework, machine learning models, and …
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Show of Force: film, ghosts and genres of historical performance in the Indonesian genocide
… This thesis proposes a theory of performativity, spectrality and genres of historical performance; specifically, it is argues that spectres are performatively conjured as the obscene to any symbolic performance - including both historical acts as well as their rehearsal and restaging in …
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After Melancholia: A Reappraisal of Second-Generation Diasporic Subjectivity in the Work of Jhumpa Lahiri
… While investigating the figures of emptiness, spectrality, and the message, my dissertation takes various psychoanalytic theories by Sigmund Freud, Julia Kristeva, Nicolas Abraham, Maria Torok and Jean Laplanche, among others, as its major methodological tools. As against a critical consensus …